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Cryptos taking their place as an alternative investment vehicle Cryptocurrencies attracted the interest of a wider audience than just tech-aficianados. Thus raising the demand for these goods. The largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, started the year under $1000 and...

How are great startup ecosystems builds? An important question for many economies around the world. It’s a question that has troubled a lot of policy makers. But we dare to argue that thinking from first principles the answer to this question is quite simple: increase...

What made you click? Have you clicked because of the picture? Did you like the title? Or are you just interested in the topic? Is it hard for you to answer one of these questions? Then is "What Makes You Click" the event for you. What is "What Makes You Click"? What...

Node1's Digital Transformation Meetup: It's all about the message By Samir Saberi 15-03-2017 I am glad to announce our second Node1 Digital Transformation meetup on March 23 and our two great speakers for this edition, Bart Termorshuizen and Hank van Dijk. ‘If...

Lets make software! And there we go. We’re ready to start our new software development project. The creation of a new app, website or back office system. In a corporate or a small start-up. No matter how big the project, you’ll always have some roles involved, like...

Two-sided marketplaces and the blockchain The emergence and evolution of blockchain technology offers viable solutions to the challenges of online platforms and marketplaces. Marketplace pain points include delayed transactions due to the verification of funds or...

How to encounter relevant Dutch public, open or commercial data In this post I would like to give an overview of what kind of open, public or commercial data are available and possibly relevant for the Dutch market. There are multiple global lists of data sources on...

Using statistical computing language R to exclude referral spam from the Google Analytics data and visualize traffic from human website visitors. Recently I stumbled upon the GoogleAnalyticsR package written by Mark Edmondson and I was motivated to start discovering...

Dutch open Hackathon The third edition of the Dutch Open Hackathon (DOH) will take place in the weekend of 9, 10 and 11 December. In previous editions, a Node1 consultant has supported DOH participants as a pitch coach. This edition, we helped generate publicity for...

App development with React Native. Why does it make app development super easy? Please remember NOT to call React Native a hybrid approach – it’s a brand new category. Let’s call this category for a start “JS Native mobile apps". It can and will grow faster from now...

The Dutch national broadcasting foundation NOS and live video-streaming startup Ubideo have collaborated on a pilot that will bring a new and innovative dimension to the Tour de France. The pilot will provide a more comprehensive, interactive and impressive experience of the Tour de France in the city of Utrecht on July 4th.

Albert van Veen, CIO of Schiphol Group, announces that the international airport is going to build an open API platform. The announcement is made just a week after the successful airport hackathon Hack & Fly organized by Schiphol and Aéroports de Paris.

Recently Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite, wrote an article on the current rise of live video streaming apps. Holmes argues that the recent flurry of live streaming apps, led by Periscope, are the biggest things since Twitter itself.

In the last 15 years there has been an increasing interest in the so-called ‘Internet of Things.’ The expectation around this next iteration of the Internet reached a peak last year. So much that Gartner placed the IoT at the top of the hype cycle or the so-called ‘peak of inflated expectations’, last summer.

For the last 25 years the Internet has been the single most important (meta) driving force of innovation. As an information systems the Internet is on its way to allow for near-perfect competition breaking down friction in transactions in every single domain and every part of our lives.

In the previous blog post ‘Why product innovation is dead’ we talked about the imperative for business model innovation. But how do you carry out fast business model innovation and which tools should you use?

The lean startup methodology has elucidated that to innovate fast you have to learn fast what problem it is you’re trying to solve and what solution customers are willing to pay for. Speed is the comparative advantage of successful companies. So before you start building something nobody needs you should build MVP, measure and learn fast by applying continuous deployment, split testing etc.

Large companies often make large investments in product innovation and operational efficiency. The objective is to slice cost, achieve revenue growth and obtain or improve profit margins. Before the advent of the Internet the pace of technology change was much slower, large companies had a handful of real competitors and the customer was happy to be a customer. Back then product innovation was enough and it was okay to say it’s ‘business as usual.’ That mindset would now be a recipe for disaster.